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1. Trump plans to put military on the streets to catch criminals (See section 4): (tags:usa police military doom fascism )
2. Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search: (tags:search web )
3. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in Canadian Parliament: (tags:canada Conservatives politics funny )
4. Burying cables costs 10x-20x more than pylons: (tags:electricity infrastructure )
5. "Induced Atmospheric Vibration" may have caused the outages across Spain and Portugal. But what is it?: (tags:electricity )
6. People eat more when given ultra-processed foods than when given unprocessed food.: (tags:diet food weight )
7. White House hits back at Amazon plan to show tariff price rises: (tags:Amazon economics business politics USA )
8. Popular LLMs Found to Produce Vulnerable Code by Default: (tags:security ai fail )
9. Trump is the Godfather in Reverse: (tags:politics economics usa canada china )
10. Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task': (tags:translation language china English food )
11. The British Government is not taking climate threats seriously: (tags:uk globalwarming doom )

1. How war between Russia and the Olympics is fuelling boxing's gender row: (tags:gender sports olympics russia )
2. Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth's Atmosphere: (tags:co2 visualisation video )
3. BBC removing Huw Edwards from family and entertainment content (The Dr Who episode his voice was in will be redubbed): (tags:bbc pedophilia drwho )
4. What Happens in a Mind That Can't 'See' Mental Images (a brief history of aphantasia): (tags:psychology vision imagination )
5. The nature of consciousness, and how to enjoy it while you can: (tags:consciousness )
6. A brief explanation of why the Japanese currency markets are causing issues right now: (tags:economics investing Doom video )
7. Dinosaurs Did Not Trudge Through Thick Rainforests: (tags:trees dinosaurs )
8. OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won't release it: (tags:ai )
9. The significance of Bluesky and decentralized social media: (tags:socialmedia decentralisation )
10. Chrome is about to make it harder to block ads. I recommend switching to Firefox.: (tags:advertising chrome web OhForFucksSake )
11. Three different approaches to the problem of disposable plastic: (tags:plastic environment waste )

1. Lake District sewage spill runs non-stop for 42 days after decades of inaction: (tags:water sewage pollution nature regulation UK OhForFucksSake )
2. How the US military made San Francisco gay: (tags:LGBT USA history gay sanfrancisco military )
3. The BBC covers Google's destruction of its search tool (and useful web sites): (tags:Google web search OhForFucksSake )
4. An Age of Gods and Demons: The Greatness of Princess Mononoke: (tags:ghibli review criticism nature Japan history fantasy )
5. When we're banning people from shops based on facial identification, how many errors are acceptable?: Can happen without technology too, of course. I was nearly thrown out of a pub before I opened my mouth and the staff realised I wasn't the person who caused trouble there the week before.
(tags:faces identity society crime UK )
6. The most interesting thing about the Tory National Service announcement is that they're quietly cancelling the "levelling up" funds to pay for it...: (tags:UK conservatives OhForFucksSake money )

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1. How are the British like the Japanese?: (tags:UK Japan society )
2. Edinburgh council rules out pneumatic underground bins: (tags:Edinburgh waste technology )
3. 'All the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order': The riddle of the 'Pulborough Area' torc from Sussex. (And how much effort it takes to find a fraud): (tags:history archeology fraud )
4. Meta is now allowing lies about the 2020 election in political ads: (tags:facebook advertising fraud politics usa OhForFucksSake )
5. Transforming the future of music creation with AI: (tags:music ai )
6. Elephants might give each other names: (tags:elephants names )
7. for babies born before 34 weeks, delaying the clamping of the cord for a minimum of 60 seconds after birth reduces death by nearly a third: (tags:babies death )
8. Young Animator of the Year UK - an impressive piece for anyone, but for a 16 year old...: (tags:animation children impressive video )
9. Are you a victim of Executive Function Theft: (tags:behaviour work )
10. 'Nimona' breaks LGBT barriers and survives to tell the tale: (tags:LGBT movies animation Disney )
11. Apple announces RCS support for iMessage: (tags:Apple sms communication )
12. Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024: (tags:adblock Google Chrome web OhForFucksSake )
13. IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts: (tags:Twitter Nazis ibm advertising )
14. Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog): (tags:penguin video )
15. Incredible video of Starling murmuration: (tags:video birds )
16. World-first gene therapy that aims to cure sickle-cell disease: (tags:genetics disease GoodNews )
17. Royal Mail owner says 'reform is urgent' after group slumps to a £319m loss: (tags:royalmail uk )
18. People living in Europe are about to get a much better Windows 11: (tags:europe windows regulation )
19. Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (3,000 years old, transliterated into Hittite): (tags:language archeology )
20. From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us: (tags:Technology ai art )
21. 'I was deported for wearing tinted moisturiser': Qatar's new LGBT crackdown: (tags:qatar lgbt OhForFucksSake )
22. Why are some jobs so "greedy"?: (tags:jobs )
23. South Korea announces plans to ban consumption of dog meat: (tags:dogs korea food )

1. MPs call for magic mushrooms and psychedelic drugs to be downgraded (and consumption rooms to be trialled): (tags:psychopath drugs law UK )
2. Astoundingly, giving money to homeless people helps them.: (tags:GuaranteedIncome homelessness )
3. Musk's changes at Twitter helped spread Russian propaganda: (tags:Russia propaganda Twitter )
4. The algorithm that blew up Italy's school system: (tags:computers teaching Italy OhForFucksSake )
5. Higher Intakes of Potassium and Magnesium, but Not Lower Sodium, Reduce Cardiovascular Risk: (tags:heart health )
6. US, UK: Please take a moment to contact your elected officials!: (tags:uk usa censorship web )
7. Our Human Ancestors Very Nearly Went Extinct 900,000 Years Ago, Genetics Suggest, With A Population of less than 1,300: (tags:prehistory genetics humans )
8. The 'bank of family' is deeply unfair - and not the answer to the housing crisis: (tags:uk housing inequality )
9. Will post-Brexit food checks ever happen?: (tags:food uk europe )
10. Happy 20th birthday to Badger Badger Badger!: (tags:meme badgers history viaEatSoylentGreen )

1. A history of LGBT communities and how (some) radical feminists attacked them: (tags:history LGBT OhForFucksSake )
2. 94% of people don't want to be tracked online - why are sites still asking for consent to do so?: (tags:cookies surveillance web )
3. Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices: (tags:uk europe india trade rice )
4. Edinburgh's Water of Leith nature project sees floating habitats placed to support wildlife: (tags:edinburgh rivers nature )
5. The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code: (tags:europe security software )
6. Ikea Tarot Deck: (tags:tarot ikea awesome )
7. The best Covid tracker website is finally shutting down. I am so grateful for the work they put in over the last few years: (tags:Pandemic visualisation )
8. Why is Africa the way it is? - part 2: (tags:Africa viaDanielDWilliam )
9. Why is Africa the way it is? - part 1: (tags:Africa )

1. Why did the Southern States secede?: (tags:USA history civilwar slavery )
2. When a Far Right Shitposter Runs a Social Media Platform: (tags:USA politics fraud disinformation socialmedia ElonMusk Twitter )
3. The Dangers of Google’s .zip TLD. Can you quickly tell which of the URLs is fraudulent?: (tags:hacking security web )
4. Alastair Campbell seems to have come around on fixing the voting system: (tags:politics voting reform labour )
5. Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before: (tags:titanic 3d scanning )
6. Why did the UK do so badly at Eurovision?: (tags:eurovision music UK )
7. Meet the people who carry out virtual relationships for money - two minutes at a time: (tags:relationships fraud business )
8. 94% of people don't want to be tracked online - why are sites still asking for consent to do so?: (tags:cookies surveillance web )
9. Post-Brexit India deal could cut thousands of jobs in Leave-voting areas, and hike food prices: (tags:uk europe india trade rice )
10. Edinburgh's Water of Leith nature project sees floating habitats placed to support wildlife: (tags:edinburgh rivers nature )
11. The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code: (tags:europe security software )

1. Edinburgh Council has a critical shortage of staff: (tags:edinburgh work doom )
2. Who do LGBTQ people vote for in the next UK general election: (tags:lgbt uk politics )
3. AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral: (tags:alcohol advertising ai weird )
4. Apple, Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking: (tags:apple google tracking surveillance )
5. Mozilla acquires review-checking, scammer-spotting service Fakespot for Firefox: (tags:firefox fraud )
6. FBI former agent arrested over Jan. 6 (more than 1,000 people arrested so far): (tags:fbi usa politics crime )
7. it's a(door)able - a one-minute minigame.: (tags:love games )
8. The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small: (tags:web internet socialmedia )
9. The most draconian assault on free speech in living memory is now UK law: (tags:uk law freespeech protests )
10. Port of Aberdeen welcomes UK government funding for world's first liquid hydrogen autonomous vessel project: (tags:automation shipping scotland hydrogen viaJane )
11. The web's most important decision: (tags:internet web history computers opensource )

1. All You Need To Know About Scotland's Legal Bid For An Independence Referendum: (tags:scotland law independence )
2. COVID-19 vaccination associated with 15% reduction in stillbirths: (tags:pandemic vaccination death pregnancy )
3. The influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome: (tags:rome greece lotr movies )
4. Turns out that dreaded pit beasts are a lot like cats: (tags:funny fantasy comic cats )
5. How much does it cost Facebook to look after your cat pictures?: (tags:cats facebook storage )
6. Lugo, the only town with fully intact Roman walls: (tags:history rome Spain architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
7. Where are all the heat pumps?: (tags:electricity heating UK viaDanielDWilliam )
8. If you're wondering how SpaceX coped with Musk, this will fill you in: (tags:ElonMusk Spacex management )
9. Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x as many birds as wind turbines do per GWh (and nuclear power is twice as deadly as wind power): (tags:birds death nuclearpower coal gas environment windpower )
10. European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down: (tags:web russia europe terrorism )
11. How much trouble are GPs in Scotland in?: (tags:healthcare scotland )
12. Sponsian: Ancient Roman gold coins thought to be 'fakes' reveal long-lost local emperor: (tags:rome Romania archeology )

1. The hero and the massacre (a piece of history from the US/Vietnamese war): (tags:history war Vietnam USA )
2. EU launches fresh legal action over Northern Ireland border rules: (tags:uk NorthernIreland europe )
3. MI6 chief: Russia is 'about to run out of steam' in Ukraine and may have to pause: (tags:mi6 ukraine russia war )
4. Whisky makers are turning their backs on peat: (tags:alcohol scotland )
5. Single-use plastic ban in Scotland exempt from forthcoming UK Internal Market Act: (tags:scotland uk plastic law )
6. Migrant women raped on journeys to Europe receiving emergency abortions on rescue ships in the Mediterranean: (tags:abortion rape migration europe )
7. How Hertz Paid Accenture $32 Million for a Website That Never Went Live: (tags:epicfail web outsourcing )
8. I love stories about how chaotic it was working for dotcom companies (Etsy in this case): (tags:Web business )
9. What lurks within... the Museum of Failure?!? (My "favourite" is the spray on condom): (tags:fail business viaPatrickHadfield )
10. House passes Right to Contraception Act, a bill to protect access to birth control: (tags:USA contraception )

Why comments are usually terrible, and how to make them better: (tags:comments web )
I can see 29 distinct colours. How about you?: (tags:colour eyes genetics )
The happiness of love turns to sadness when unspent.: (tags:love dogs death sadness grief )
Disney employees are staging walkouts over company's response to the 'Don't Say Gay' bill: (tags:Disney LGBT )
Ukraine-Russia peace talks make significant progress as 15-point plan to end war drawn up by officials: (tags:Ukraine Russia war )
Americans overestimate how big minorities are (I'd be very surprised if Brits didn't think the same): (tags:USA minorities polls demographics viaJennieRigg )
His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.: (tags:Jews singing religion computers death lgbt )
UK sets out action plan to tackle inequality based on recommendations from a commission that concluded there was no systemic racism in Britain.: (tags:UK racism )
Why Russians Support Putin's War Against Ukrainians: (tags:Russia Ukraine war polls )
France ends gas heaters subsidies, boosts heat pumps in bid to cut Russia reliance: (tags:France heating electricity Russia )
Russian war in Ukraine 'largely stalled on all fronts', UK claims: (tags:russia ukraine )
In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware: (tags:surgery airplanes )

Hard truths about the gender pay gap: (tags:gender gender_equality pay )
Air Pollution Stops Insects From Smelling Flowers: (tags:pollution flowers insects doom bees )
I highly recommend the exhibition of Audubon's Birds of America at the National Museum Of Scotland (fascinating combination of art, science, and history): (tags:art birds museum scotland )
Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices: (tags:crows birds altruism Intelligence tracking )
What It Would Take to Bring the ISS Back to Earth in One Piece?: (tags:iss space )
Behind Pornhub's decade-old moderation problems: (tags:porn web business )
Playing Wordle to lose as badly as possible: (tags:games words loss )
Why The UK Wants To Block Russia From SWIFT Payment System While The EU Is Resistant: (tags:uk europe banking russia ukraine )
Understanding the War in Ukraine (a great overview by a military historian): (tags:Ukraine Russia NATO viaDanielDWilliam )
The Beginner's Guide to Elden Ring (a most informative video): (tags:games advice video )
This is clearly the best of all possible burgers: (tags:food video )

The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Here's Why!: (tags:muppets christmas viaMarrog )
Peter Molyneux's next game is a Blockchain pyramid scheme: (tags:games blockchain OhForFucksSake PeterMolyneux )
Scottish bottle return scheme will not start until 2023: (tags:Scotland recycling )
Omicron has an R over 5 and a doubling time of 2 days: (tags:Pandemic Doom )
Van Gogh Alive Comes to Edinburgh: (tags:VincentVanGogh Edinburgh art Scotland )
Testing disruption leaves UK 'flying blind' over scale of omicron wave: (tags:UK Pandemic testing Doom )
About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated: (tags:religion usa )
Star Wars: Imperial March x Carol of The Bells: (tags:StarWars viaConuly music christmas video )
The Depression Treatment That Is Turning Lives Around in Five Days (I'd love to know how long it lasts): (tags:depression neuroscience fmri )
Omicron symptoms differ from other Covid strains: (tags:pandemic virus )
HTTP/3 is Fast: (tags:web http )
Why battery costs have plunged 89 percent since 2010: (tags:batteries economics )
UK Hospitals likely to be overwhelmed by omicron: (tags:uk nhs doom )
What it's like making friends with men: (tags:men friendship comic funny )
Malta becomes first EU nation to legalise cannabis: (tags:malta marijuana legalisation )
'Harvey Weinstein would threaten to get Tarantino to direct': An oral history of The Lord of the Rings at 20: (tags:lotr history movies )

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